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Annie's "Books you should read if you want to consider yourself well-read"

This list was compiled from many other lists and my own experiences with certain books. As I read through the list I may add or remove books.

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1. The Arabian Nights  
2. Beowulf: A New Verse Translation  
3.
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 The Holy Bible
by Various Authors
  
4. The Epic of Gilgamesh (Penguin Classics)
by Anonymous
  
5.
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 The Koran ( Penguin Classics )
by Revised Translation by N.J. Dawood
  
6. Njal's Saga (Penguin Classics)
by Anonymous
  
7. The Torah  
8.
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 ... Wild Bill Hickock (The American adventure series) (The American adventure series)
by A. M Anderson
  
9.
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 The king of the mountains,
by Edmond About
  
10.
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 Things Fall Apart
by Chinua Achebe
  
11. The Ultimate Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
by Douglas Adams
  
12. Watership Down: A Novel
by Richard Adams
  
13. Prometheus Bound
by Aeschylus
  
14. A Death In The Family
by James Agee
  
15. Little Women (Signet Classics)
by Louisa May Alcott
  
16. The Divine Comedy
by Dante Alighieri
  
17.
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 Hans Christian Andersen: Stories and Fairy Tales
by Hans Christian Andersen
  
18. The Nicomachean Ethics (Penguin Classics)
by Aristotle
  
19.
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 The Collected Works Of Billy The Kid
by Michael Ondaatje
  
20. Emma (Penguin Classics)
by Jane Austen
  
21. Persuasion (Penguin Classics)
by Jane Austen
  
22. Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics)
by Jane Austen
  
23.
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 Sense and Sensibility
by Jane Austen
  
24.
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 Daniel Boone: Master of the Wilderness
by John Bakeless
  
25. Go Tell It on the Mountain
by James Baldwin
  
26. Three Novels by Samuel Beckett: Molloy, Malone Dies, the Unnamable
by Samuel Beckett
  
27.
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 Waiting for Godot: A Tragicomedy in Two Acts
by Samuel Beckett
  
28. The Adventures of Augie March (Penguin Great Books of the 20th Century)
by Saul Bellow
  
29.
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 Georges Bizet: Carmen
by Georges Bizet
  
30. Noughts and Crosses
by Malorie Blackman
  
31. The Magic Faraway Tree
by Enid Blyton
  
32. The Decameron (Signet Classics)
by Giovanni Boccaccio
  
33. Borges: Collected Fictions
by Jorge Luis Borges
  
34. Jane Eyre (Oxford World's Classics)
by Charlotte Bronte
  
35. Wuthering Heights (Oxford World's Classics)
by Emily Bronte
  
36.
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 Fang and claw,
by Frank Buck
  
37.
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 On jungle trails (Adventures in English)
by Frank Buck
  
38.
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 Bring 'Em Back Alive
by Frank Buck
  
39. The Last Days of Pompeii
by Sir Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
  
40. The Pilgrim's Progress (Oxford World's Classics)
by John Bunyan
  
41. Secret Garden (Children's Classics)
by Frances Hodgson Burnett
  
42. The Way of All Flesh
by Samuel Butler
  
43.
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 Caesar: The Conquest Of Gaul
by Julius Caesar
  
44. The Stranger
by Albert Camus
  
45. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
by Lewis Carroll
  
46.
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 Death Comes for the Archbishop
by Willa Cather
  
47. Kit Carson's Own Story of His Life: As Dictated to Col. and Mrs. D.C. Peters
by Kit Carson
  
48.
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 Paul Celan: Poems
by Paul Celan
  
49. Journey To The End Of The Night
by Louis-Ferdinand Celine
  
50.
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 Adventures of Cellini (Classics illustrated) (Classics illustrated)
by Benvenuto Cellini
  
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Created by Annie on Jan 02, 2008.